Vintage

The Porsche 912 is a car that’s lived in the shadow of its larger brother, the 911, since before it was even available for sale. Development of the 912 was started due to concerns within Porsche that their new 911 flagship model was going to be too expensive, and would subsequently shrink their available market…

The Ferrari 400 Superamerica was the luxurious follow-on model from the 410 Superamerica, as is often the case with Ferrari the 400 and 410 designations referenced swept capacity – the 410 used the 5 litre (~410cc per cylinder) “long-block” Lampredi-designed V12 and the 400 used the newer and more advanced Colombo-designed SOHC 4.0 litre V12. Interestingly,…

Looking over the almost 100 motorcycles listed under the “vintage” tag this week and finding our favourite 5 was more difficult than usual, there were 21 bikes on the short list and many discussions were had on the merits of each. Eventually (after no small amount of bickering) we settled on these 5, I’d personally…

Maserati’s 200SI was a car developed with very large shoes to fill, it was to be the replacement for the popular and successful A6GC6, it would be driven by some of motor sport’s biggest names – including Carroll Shelby and Stirling Moss. Moss took 1st place at the 1956 Trofeo Supercortemaggiore in an evolved version…

The Mazda Cosmo 110S was the first rotary-engined car to roll out of the Japanese marque’s factory, it was dressed in a jet-age inspired body and in its one race outing it landed a hard fought 4th place after belting around the Nurburgring for 84 hours. Each Cosmo was built by hand between 1967 and…

Intermeccanica (or more correctly, Construzione Automobili Intermeccanica) is an automobile company with an extraordinary history – it was founded by the American couple Frank and Paula Reisner, who moved to Torino in Italy to pursue their dream of building beautiful, high-performance sports cars. Frank and Paula started out in 1959 building performance parts for European…

This week we have more variety in the Top 5 than ever before, from a vintage Norton racer to a VW-powered Brazilian cruiser – there really should be something here to suit everyone. By far the priciest of the bikes here is the Ducati 750 F1, these are very rare and they almost never pop up…

The BMW 2002 Turbo was the first European production car to be fitted with a turbo, paving the way for cars like the Porsche 930 in the years shortly thereafter. The 2002 model series is one of BMW’s most famous, the story of how it came to be is too good not to share –…

We found some genuinely significant motorcycles on eBay this week including Steve McQueen’s first Husqvarna – easily one of the most iconic off-road motorcycles of the ’60s and ’70s. Below the Husky is a beautifully customised Harley-Davidson racer, it’s technically a re-badged Aermacchi from Italy but this is one of the nicest we’ve seen in…

Although the Nissan Fairlady Z 432 may look a lot like its far more common stablemate the 240Z, they’re actually two quite different motor cars once you take a look under the skin. The Z 432 was fitted with the same drivetrain as the formidable Nissan GT-R, the engine was the race-ready 160hp 2 litre…

This week is the first time we’ve featured a motorcycle with a trailer attached, and it’s not just any motorcycle – it’s a 1000cc BMW K1, a bike developed by BMW for long distance autobahn touring at speeds of 150mph or more. Elsewhere in the Top 5 we have an exceedingly rare Cotton Super OHV 500…

The D-Type Jaguar is an excellent example of what happens when you take an aeronautical engineer and have him design you a racing car. Post-WWII Britain was brimming with engineers used to the fast-paced design and engineering required during times of war, and this mindset helped launch the country to the forefront of both automobile…

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